We are now accepting applications for the ARTSEDGE RESIDENCY PROJECT, a joint venture of the Kelly Writers House and Penn's Facilities and Real Estate Services: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/awards/artsedge/. DEADLINE: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (at midnight).
The ARTSEDGE PROJECT offers a one year residency for an emerging writer. The residency includes an apartment at 40th and Chestnut, studio/writing space in the AIR Space artistic nexus, and close affiliation with Penn's writing communities.
During the course of the residency, the ArtsEdge writer will be encouraged to develop at least one project at the Writers House or the Rotunda. Past residents have produced staged readings (http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0109.php#22), organized panel discussions (http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0310.php#25), performed readings at Writers House (http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1110.php#2), and coordinated other projects (http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1009.php#15).
Visit the ArtsEdge website for more information and details about the project: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/awards/artsedge.
TO APPLY, please submit materials below to residencyproject@writing.upenn.edu:
(1) letter of interest, (2) CV or resume, (3) writing sample (maximum 30 pages), (4) personal contact information (phone & email), and (5) contact information for three professional references.
*** SUBMIT ALL MATERIALS AS ONE DOCUMENT (Word or PDF preferred). ***
And please help us out by forwarding this announcement far and wide!
ADDRESS ALL QUESTIONS to: residencyproject@writing.upenn.edu.
"I teach horizontally, meaning that while I might begin with a fixed idea of what I'm going to teach that day, I let it drift rhizomatically way off topic, often pulling it back when it gets too far. I rely on non-fixed materials to teach this way; the whole world is at my fingertips. Should I go off on a tangent about John and Rauschenberg and their love relationship as expressed in Rauschenberg's bed, an image of that bed is always a click away. From there, we can head anywhere into the non-fixed universe, be it film, text or sound. And of course, that always takes us elsewhere. As Cage says, 'We are getting nowhere fast.'" 
that anyone has yet got the imaginative measure of that terrifying day six years ago. Certainly our Tolstoy has not crawled out of the rubble. The closest we have, Don DeLillo, succeeded as an essayist-journalist ("In the Ruins of the Future: Reflections on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September,” Harper’s, December 2001) but, to my mind, failed as a novelist ("Falling Man"). One reason, perhaps, is that the remembered emotion was instantly buried under a pile of cultural junk.' - Tod Gitlin in his review of Susan Faludi's The Terror Dream (written for 
